Scientific Objectives
The phenomena of Understanding and Misunderstanding can and should be investigated at vastly differing levels of analysis - from neural processes (within an individual brain) to cultural processes (across societies). However, a comprehensive explanatory account of these phenomena requires the integration of the different levels of analyses in a non-reductionist framework. The Humanities disciplines, with their focus on meaning, are crucial to this explanatory integration. The EUROCORES programme EuroUnderstanding provides opportunities for Humanities-based researchers to collaborate with each other, and with researchers from life and social science disciplines, to work towards such an integration.
A multi-disciplinary research programme towards understanding the social generation of (mis)understandings
Following agreement with funding organisations in Austria, Belgium (FWO and FNRS), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey, the European Science Foundation launched a Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme Understanding and Misunderstanding: Cognition, Communication and Culture (EuroUnderstanding) in January 2010.
This programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research and is expected to run for 3 years; it includes national research funding as well as support for networking and dissemination activities managed by the ESF. The participating funding organizations have brought together a research budget of approx. 5 Mio Euros.
Outline Proposals were to be submitted by Thursday 8th April 2010. Full Proposals were invited in the week of Monday 3rd May 2010 with Tuesday 22nd June 2010 as the deadline for submission. Funding decisions were finalised by March 2011.
To download the EuroUnderstanding Call for Outline Proposals click here
EuroUnderstanding Theme proposal |
EUROCORES is a truly “bottom-up” funding mechanism, where - through its annual call for theme proposals – the ESF solicits new ideas from the scientific community with a view to creating large-scale collaborative research programmes in and across all scientific domains. Out of these submitted ideas - called EUROCORES theme proposals – around five will be selected each year to be developed into EUROCORES programmes. The names of the people who submitted the EuroUnderstanding theme proposal, and in this way stood at the basis of the EuroUnderstanding programme, can be downloaded here. |
